Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

References

• The contents of this fight are a slight departure from the purely Shakespearean adventures within Cube Theater. The references are mostly relevant to Tom Stoppard's re-envisioning of Hamlet in his play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. In Stoppard's play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are revised from minor supporting characters to become the central focus of the story. The deterministic coin and other pieces of text are allusions to the larger themes of free will vs. determinism within Stoppard's play. One of the major plot points is that the two titular characters are struggling with the foreknowledge that they are scripted to die during the course of the original story. As a result, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern spend most of their time idly philosophizing and playing games such as "questions" while they await what seems like their inevitable fate(s).